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Interesting things about specific US route terminuses

Started by roadman65, January 28, 2020, 01:46:09 PM

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Quote from: bugo on February 11, 2020, 02:55:45 AM
US 259 ends at US 59 at each end.

Not only that, it's also shorter than US 59, as pointed out by NE2 in that compilation of indirect US routes. The same used to happen with US 159.
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Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.

deathtopumpkins

Quote from: Hwy 61 Revisited on February 10, 2020, 05:12:04 PM
US 46 also ends at a state route, NJ 94, which is usually frowned-upon. It used to extend into PA along the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, but then US 611 was moved into New Jersey, truncating it.

US 46's western end is at I-80, not NJ 94. Consulting the NJDOT Straight Line Diagrams, it officially begins where the Exit 4B ramp leaves I-80 eastbound.
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cl94

US 62 is the only even-numbered US route to run from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Both termini are within a couple blocks of the border. Southern end at the Mexican border concurrent with US 85, northern end is 2 blocks from the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
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Quote from: sparker on February 09, 2020, 01:57:34 AM
Prior to the 1964 renumbering, no fewer than 8 US highways terminated at US 101 in CA (40,50,60,70,80,199,299,399); that was cut back to just US 199 after that year.  In addition -- again, prior to '64, all the fully cross-country US highways ending in "0" terminated at US 101 (adding US 20 and US 30 in OR).  And keeping in the pre-renumbering "101" family -- Alternate US 101 was the western terminus (1935-64) of US 66, and hosted the truly weirdest set of termini, that of US 6 and US 91, which terminated not at Alternate 101 but along that route, terminating at each other -- from opposite directions -- and the junction of SSR 15, which terminated there as well in Long Beach. 

I remember that thread about the 1969-1971 era San Diego videos that tossed around and US 395/Route 163's south terminus was hard to pin down (though I think the info based on several years of obscure legislative records and articles suggested the terminus was actually the Coronado Ferry terminal and not US 101 itself).

Was there a point where US 395 ended specifically at US 101 (as opposed to the Coronado Ferry terminal, or south of today's I-5 when US 101 used that alignment) at the same time as the other US routes listed above?
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Quote from: fillup420 on February 09, 2020, 07:49:40 PM
the eastern end of US 76 is 1.7 miles long

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2073086,-77.7967808,3a,41.4y,245.54h,87.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s51K8urjqVDqbZ8AnbT9Dng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


Is it actually designated like that, or is it just weird signage NCDOT is using saying the end is in that many miles?

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frankenroad

Quote from: Eth on February 11, 2020, 08:38:16 AM
US 25 ends at a route of the same number (GA 25), and does so while concurrent with another route of the same number (GA 25 Connector). And yes, they're all signed.

At the north end, US-25 ends at the Ohio border on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, which carries US-42 and US-127 from Kentucky into Ohio, and US-25 up to the line.
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Flint1979

Quote from: Eth on February 11, 2020, 08:38:16 AM
US 25 ends at a route of the same number (GA 25), and does so while concurrent with another route of the same number (GA 25 Connector). And yes, they're all signed.
US-25's northern terminus use to be at M-25 when it ended in Michigan.

TheHighwayMan3561

MN: US 8 originally ended at US 61 north of the Twin Cities. It was later extended to Minneapolis, but after I-35's completion it was truncated back to a spot three miles south of its original west terminus.

US 75 ends at a dead end on the Canadian border after Canada closed their customs station (the US followed suit later) due to redundancy to the I-29 station.

CNGL-Leudimin

In the vein of US 8, US 54 originally ended and currently ends at US 36 (even though that spot has been moved to the Northeast), but extended to Chicago in the interim.
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Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.

roadman65

US 181 in TX ends at I-37 at both ends.  Not many US routes end at the very same interstate and both being intrastate routes also.
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